Will the break have affected our momentum ....

[Rayleigh boy]

No reason to suppose it will have affected our players more than any other team but while we were on the up others were on the slide.

Has the focus shifted a little or it just me that feels less urgency now -

 

[Cliff Pavilion]

No reason to suppose it will have affected our players more than any other team but while we were on the up others were on the slide.

Has the focus shifted a little or it just me that feels less urgency now -

Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing yesterday. Not sure it will affect us so much but it's given Luton, Burnley, etc time to draw breath, take stock and take a little of the intensity away from their horrific situations.

 

[SUFC_Al]

It can work both ways I suppose, having a rest ready for the next 7 games is a good thing but when you haven't lost in 4 games you want the games coming regularly.

I'm treating it like the calm before the storm, hopefully we'll come roaring back at Hull!

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

One of those things that can go either way I guess.
Either they will be champing at the bit to do a job at the KC or in true Southend Jekyll & Hyde style we'll have an awful game and that important momentum will be lost.

As mentioned after the Leeds game, was it such a bad thing that it was a draw as it meant they didn't have 2 weeks off to think "well, we're almost safe now"?

 

[NZamba Legend]

I think our players will be decidedly jaded.

In fact, instead of walking out at the KC ready to play one the most important matches of their lives, I reckon Hunt, Freddy et al will be so chilled they will continue alleged recent behaviour and stagger around the pitch drinking pints, pinching girls arses and trying to get into fights while Hull romp home 15-1. Saint Mark Gower will be distraught at the fecklessness of his team-mates and will score a late consolation.

I can't be the only one to expect the worst surely?

 

[SUFC_Al]

One of those things that can go either way I guess.
Either they will be champing at the bit to do a job at the KC or in true Southend Jekyll & Hyde style we'll have an awful game and that important momentum will be lost.

As mentioned after the Leeds game, was it such a bad thing that it was a draw as it meant they didn't have 2 weeks off to think "well, we're almost safe now"?

Good point there Richard, they've had two weeks to focus on what they've got to do to get out of that bottom 3, rather than as you say, thinking the job's almost done.

I think I hated the break more than the players to be honest!

 

[Shrimper2thecore]

Difficult to say, but I am sure Luton and Barnsley were much happier to have a break than we were!!

 

[mattytheshrimper]

i hate international breaks as this thread is quite right you never know how your players are going to react. it can go either way too be honest. hull are in great from at the moment but so are we. i think it being an away game works in our favour with our players as they don't have to face the harsh grouns at roots hall! we always really get behind them on away matches

 

[Richard_Cadette]

I dont think it will have done us too much harm at all really, we had 4 massive games in a relatively short space of time, in which we did well, but that is bound to take something out of them, so having 2 weeks off wont do them any harm.

That can also be said for the other teams around us who needed the break, so it may not make too much difference, but when you have a squad as thin as ours, any break to allow players to top up there energy levels and injured players get fit can only be a good thing!

Roll on the KC.... (Mainly because I am not long back from my International Break - Havent seen Southend since Sheff Wed away so I am having serious withdrawal symptoms, even if 2 of those weeks were spent in a beach in HawaiI!!)

 

[sufcintheprem]

I think we'll be better for it. We weren't playing fantastically well before and this should give us time to regroup

 

[Joolz]

but when you have a squad as thin as ours, any break to allow players to top up there energy levels and injured players get fit can only be a good thing!

I think this hits the nail on the head for me. If you look at the number of games some of our players have had to play (and the intensity of some of them at that), a break can only work in our favour me thinks. Gower springs to mind as the sort of player who will really benefit from two weeks off.

 

[Murkey_Mouse]

I do think break is a good thing for us, its nice to go into a break on a good run, I rather be in our forms than Barnsley, Burnley & Luton forms - these team rather have match sooner as possible than a break so they can bounce back from a beating.

Iam glad break is over so we all can forget about boring disjoined England side who don't know how to pass the ball to 1 teammate to another teammate.

 

[CC51DAS]

Well one good thing is that Fredi should know how to beat an offside trap by now . Could be a goalfest tomorrow !

 

[CC51DAS]

Well one good thing is that Fredi should know how to beat an offside trap by now . Could be a goalfest tomorrow !

Spot on again !